Brilliance of the Seas docked at Valletta, Malta following the heeling incident at Alexandria |
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| Name: | Brilliance of the Seas |
| Owner: | Royal Caribbean International |
| Operator: | RCL UK Ltd. |
| Port of registry: | Nassau, Bahamas[1] |
| Builder: | Meyer Werft, (Papenburg, Germany)[1] |
| Cost: | US $350 million[1] |
| Launched: | May 31, 2002[2] |
| Christened: | July 13, 2002 by Marilyn Ofer in Harwich, England[3] |
| Completed: | July 15, 2002[4] |
| In service: | 2002-present |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9195200[5] Call Sign C6SJ5[5] |
| Status: | In Active Service as of 2010 |
| Notes: | CDC sanitation score: 99% (July 6, 2008)[6] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Radiance-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | gross tonnage (GT) of 90,090 tons |
| Length: | 962 ft (293 m) |
| Beam: | 105.6 ft (32.2 m) |
| Draft: | 27.8 ft (8.5 m)[1] |
| Decks: | 12 decks[1] |
| Installed power: | Gas turbine (20.5MW each)[1][7], 3 bow thrusters[7] |
| Propulsion: | 2 azimuthing pods (19.5MW each)[1] |
| Speed: | 25-knot (46 km/h; 29 mph)[1] |
| Capacity: | 2,501 passengers |
| Crew: | 859 crew |
MS Brilliance of the Seas is a cruise ship belonging to the Royal Caribbean's Radiance class. It cruises the Mediterranean from April to January, and is based in Dubai - sailing to ports around the Middle East and India - from November to April, doing two repositioning cruises each year which take it through the Suez Canal. Brilliance of the Seas is operated by RCL UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
In March 2011, Royal Caribbean International announced that Brilliance will reposition to Northern Europe for the summer of 2012. She will be homeported at Amsterdam and Copenhagen to go on cruises to the Norwegian Fjords and the Arctic Circle and the Baltic, between 7 and 12 nights. After her Northern Europe season between May and September 2012, Brilliance of the Seas will cruise to Canada and New England between September and October 2012. She will then sail from Cape Liberty and San Juan to the Southern Caribbean.
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The Brilliance of the Seas sails from Barcelona to the Mediterranean and from Dubai to the Arabian Peninsula and India. She is also sails through the Suez Canal during her repositioning cruises. Starting in 2012, she will sail from Copenhagen to Northern Europe and in September 2012 she will make a transatlantic crossing to New York. From there she will sail to Canada and New England until November, when she will sail from Cape Liberty to San Juan where she will do Southern Caribbean voyages.
In July 2005, Royal Caribbean was plagued by a controversy that involved the disappearance of one of their passengers, George Allen Smith. Although the cruise line claims that his death was the result of an accident,[9][10] evidence suggests that foul play may have been involved. Blood was found in his cabin and on the side of the ship where he allegedly fell overboard and drowned. The FBI announced that they were investigating the disappearance on July 29, 2005.[11] Geraldo Rivera aired a news story interviewing Josh Askin, one of the last people seen with George Allen Smith, along with two Russian boys, Greg Rozenberg and Zach Rozenberg.[12] On June 29, 2006, it was announced that Royal Caribbean International had agreed to pay compensation to Smith's estate,[13] later revealed to be more than $1 million.[14]
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